Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already, many of Rachmaninoff's long time admirers felt the same way about the Concerto that the late composer-pianist himself felt about his much-mangled Prelude in C Sharp Minor. He once snapped: "They can play it any way they choose just so long as they do not play it where I can hear...
...days of Strauss waltzes and the musical "grand manner." every aspiring pianist wanted to be apprenticed to the grey-maned old thunderer, Franz Liszt...
...publicity handouts often bear the names of Comedian Zero Mostel, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Dancer Sono Osato, Boogie-Woogie Artist Hazel Scott, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Composer Earl Robinson, Conductor Rudolph Ganz, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Novelist Thomas Mann. And ICCASP's stable of talent also embraces college professors, atomic scientists, advertising writers, book critics, and coveys of ballet dancers-classic or modern...
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (Erica Mormi, violinist, with Artur Balsam pianist; Victor, 6 sides). The nation's outstanding woman violinist plays the familiar dinner-concert favorites, Nos. 1, 5 and 6, and the less often heard Nos. 7, 8 and 17. Performance: excellent...
Prokofiev: Sonata In D Major for Violin and Piano (Joseph Szigeti with Leonid Hambro, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). One of Prokofiev's most lyrical scores, recorded expertly and for the first time by the violinist who introduced it in the U.S. in 1944. Performance: excellent...